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Recent years have seen bees dying off en masse , but our flying friends may have found their salvation in an unlikely insect ally – a dangerously poisonous spider . A bite from a funnel web spider could kill a human quickly, but new research by scientists at the University of Newcastle shows a mixture of venom from Australian funnel web spiders combined with snowdrop lectin creates a powerful “biopesticide” that could be used in place of pesticides believed to be killing off bees. Read the rest of How the Deadly Funnel Web Spider Could Help Save the Bees Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: agriculture , bees , deadly spider could save the bees , farming , food , funnel , lectin , neonicotinoids , pesticides , pollination , security , snowdrop , spider , web